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Grammy Award-Winning Music ProducerCreater/Producer of Wu-Tang Clan

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Robert F. Diggs aka The RZA is a chess aficionado, Grammy®
award winning music producer, vegan, BAFTA nominated film composer,
philanthropist, recording artist, actor, and director. RZA is one
of the most prominent figures in hip-hop music and the
creator/producer of

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Robert F. Diggs aka The RZA is a chess aficionado, Grammy®
award winning music producer, vegan, BAFTA nominated film composer,
philanthropist, recording artist, actor, and director. RZA is one
of the most prominent figures in hip-hop music and the
creator/producer of the world-renowned Wu-Tang Clan.

RZA is a secret scientist, who loves to obtain new knowledge in
mediums that interest him, with chess being one of his strongest
interests. He even had Josh Waitzkin, chess prodigy, work with him
to improve his game. His love for the game allowed him to write a
full chapter in the Wu Tang Manual Volume 1 that discussed
how the strategy of chess related to life within his music
conception. RZA understood how learning the game while young was
partly instrumental in the decisions he made that allowed Wu Tang
Clan to be known world-wide. Lastly, RZA has become involved not
only as a contributor but as a speaker with the Hip Hop Chess
Federation in Oakland.

RZA’s self-taught understanding of music has allowed for him
to create a sound that is uniquely his own; with the integration of
martial arts clips impressed into his thematically outlined musical
track listing; allowing the listener not just to hear, but to see.
This skill is what makes him one of the most prominent figures in
the music world. RZA has taken this skill and applied it to
creating soundtracks and composing in films such as:Ghost Dog:
The Way of the Samurai, Django Unchained, Afro
Samurai and The Man with the Iron Fist.

RZA spent his first seven years in the film industry building
his feature and television resume, studying and working alongside
top-tier directors, starting with Ridley Scott's American
Gangster, Judd Apatow'sFunny People, Todd Phillips’
Due Date, Paul Haggis' The Next Three Days, and
EuropaCorp’s Brick Mansions opposite Paul Walker. RZA
starred in Paramount's G.I. Joe 2, as the first person to
portray the “Blind Master.” Additionally he starred opposite
David Duchovny for the full 5th season of Showtime's
Californication, and in FOX’s Gang Related. RZA
spent two of his first years in film studying under Quentin
Tarantino, watching him create Kill Bill. From this
experience, RZA acquired strong directing techniques which he
applied to his directorial debut The Man with the Iron
Fists, which he co-wrote with Eli Roth; and starred as “The
Blacksmith” alongside Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu and Daniel Wu.

RZA still has more to share with the world including Banks &
Steelz, a musical collaboration with Paul Banks of Interpol which
released their debut album Anything but Words in August
2016.

RZA is a multi-hyphenated talent of a man who loves to speak to
the world through his music, books, film and lectures.

RZA is adding another bullet point to his lengthy resume with a new
partnership with Atari, Billboard can exclusively report. The
Wu-Tang Clan rapper/producer, actor and video game fanatic will be
recording an album chock-full of original tracks inspired by the
sounds… Read more

Acclaimed rapper and producer RZA, most notably of the iconic New
York group the Wu-Tang Clan, has long been a fan of Chinese
culture. Anyone who has followed his more than two decades’ worth
of music knows that fight sounds and dialogue… Read more